CONEJO PARK DISTRICT OKS 2.2% BUDGET INCREASE.Byline: Daily News Staff Conejo park district officials adopted a $9.2 million budget Thursday Thursday: see week. night for the coming year - a modest 2.2 percent increase over last year's spending package. Over the past six years the Conejo Recreation and Park District has lost more than $5 million in operating revenue operating revenue Revenue from any regular source. Revenue from sales is adjusted for discounts and returns when calculating operating revenue. Compare other revenue. when the state shifted property tax revenues from special districts to education. The loss of that money forced the park district to reduce its staff from 103 workers in 1992 to 74 in 1997. The 1997-98 budget calls for adding one more worker in the parks planning division. The overall effect of the reduced work force meant that the district reduced its operating hours at its community parks; delayed nonemergency repairs to its facilities and postponed refurbishing of some of its buildings. While the replacement of equipment is for the most part still being deferred, next year the district expects to spend about $42,000 replacing outdated out·dat·ed adj. Out-of-date; old-fashioned. outdated Adjective old-fashioned or obsolete Adj. 1. or unsafe tools. The board also agreed to spend $50,000 in an ongoing program to upgrade its data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a system. Included in the 1997-98 budget is a 1.5 percent cost-of-living cost of living n. 1. The average cost of the basic necessities of life, such as food, shelter, and clothing. 2. The cost of basic necessities as defined by an accepted standard. raise for all district employees. |
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